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Upholstery
Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers.
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Classes
- Furniture upholstery
- Automobile upholstery
- Marine upholstery
Specific projects
Tools
- Upholstery needles (round point curved needles and button needles)
- Upholstery hammers (magnetic hammers)
- Webbing stretcher
- Staple guns
- Scissors
- Sewing machines
- Goggles
- Needle guards
- Staple knockers (staple pullers)
- Upholstery regulator
- Rubber mallet
- Upholstery pins
- Chalk (upholsterer's chalk or taylor's chalk)
- T pins
Materials
Skills
Etymology
The word upholstery comes from the Middle English words up and holden, meaning to hold.
External links
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